Hello friends! Today has been an exciting day! Tim and Ranger just released a fabulous new product called Distress Spritz…a wonderful new medium to use when you are card-making, stamping or paper-crafting. It adds the most beautiful sparkle to things! If you missed Tim and his Demo of them, be sure to stop by his youtube channel to watch the replay, it’s always a fun time!
Today, I’m sharing how I used the Spritz in combination with the Distress Watercolor Pencils. The Spritz’s create a gentle splash and spritz of shimmery color that blends with all the Distress mediums, but in a gentle way as not to overpower a background with too much color, which I found was perfect for me since I love to create more subdued backgrounds that have a vintage and shabby vibe.
My first inclination with creating a background is to almost always start with coloring stamped images. It is the most relaxing way to create as it takes me back to coloring, my favorite thing to do as a child.
I started by stamping a variety of backgrounds using the Floral Trims and Floral Elements Stamp Sets (CMS461 & CMS445). I stamped them using Black Soot Archival Ink, then dried the ink using a heat tool. Then, the creative play began…my favorite combination was made using the Wilted Violet and Fossilized Amber Spritz that I’m going to be sharing with you today.
I sprayed a little Wilted Violet Spritz onto my craft mat then activated the Distress Watercolor Pencils into the puddle of shimmer. The two colors of the pencils used were Seedless Preserves and Chipped Sapphire. Once the pigment in the pencils was activated, I scribbled into each of the flowers very randomly.
After I was done scribbling the color, I took a wet paintbrush and blended the colors out. You’ll notice that while the colors are wet, the shimmer is still hidden, but as soon as the water is dry, the sparkle from the spritz shines!
Once the purples were blended out a bit, I sprayed some of the Fossilized Amber onto my craft mat and using the Fossilized Amber pencil, scribbled the pencil into the puddle to activate the pigment.
Next, I scribbled the fossilized Amber pencil in the centers of each of the flowers. My goal was to make the flowers look like pansies, and once I added a little Fossilized Amber, I thought that look was achieved. I then took my wet paintbrush and blended out some of the color with the blues and purples.
Viola! Pretty pansies…and after they were dried with a heat tool, that’s when the magic happened. The sparkle within the spritz came to light and created whimsical flowers fit for a fairy! Like each of the flowers had been sprinkled with fairy dust!
I scribbled some more little marks into the background then blended out the color using my paintbrush. I dipped my wet paintbrush into the leftover spritz on my craft mat, then colored them into the background, then I dried it with a heat tool.
Once the background was dry, I decided to spray a light mist of the Fossilized Amber Spritz onto the the entire background, then I dried it with my heat tool. The effects are quite magical and I love that each of the Spritz’s has such a gentle wash of pearlescent shine, that goes so wonderfully with each coordinating Distress color.
With that, my background was complete. I definitely would recommend that you give the Spritz’s a try and especially when combined with the Distress Watercolor Pencils. You’re sure to love them as much as I do!
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Very pretty… Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Stacy for posting this. This is beautiful! Your use shown above is my favorite use I’ve seen so far. Should I try them, this would be my preferred method, after seeing your result. 😊👍💜💛
Thank You Stacy, some great inspiration. I need to visit blogs more. AND I really need to get something NEW !! I really love these new Distress Spritz “Sparkle” So pretty on your unique flowers. I’ve a lot of flowers and recently been doing some “Doodled Ones” Enjoyed your fun post Have a good week.
You got me inspired. Thanks, once again, for giving such great tutorials. My Spritz is on the way and I can’t wait to give it a try.
So gorgeous!!! I will definitely be trying this once my Spritzes have arrived.